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John Healey Refuses Six Times to Say if UK Backs Strikes on Iran

“Few people will mourn the Ayatollah’s death” – Healey

The Defence Secretary says the Iranian regime has been a "source of evil." The post “Few people will mourn the Ayatollah’s death” – Healey appeared first on Conservative Home.

Few will mourn leader of ‘evil’ regime Ali Khamenei, says UK defence secretary

John Healey says there is ‘real and rising threat’ from Iran as US and Israeli military action divides political opinion US-Israel war on Iran – latest updates The UK defence secretary has said few will mourn Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, whose death was announced after US and Israeli airstrikes. John Healey, a senior cabinet minister, described the Iranian regime as “evil” and said it had menaced the west by sponsoring at least 20 terrorist plots to attack the UK as well as involvement

UK troops and civilians put at risk by Iran strikes, Healey says

British military personnel at a base in Bahrain were "within several hundred yards" of a strike, the defence secretary says.

Defence sec reveals details of UK's Middle East operations - including taking down Iran drones

Defence Secretary John Healey has revealed details of the UK's operations in the Middle East - including taking down Iranian drones - after the US and Israel targeted Iran.

Ex-minister adds to UK calls for ban on political donations in cryptocurrency

Exclusive: Labour’s Rushanara Ali plans to intervene in elections bill amid warnings of foreign interference A former Labour minister has added her voice to those of a growing list of experts and senior MPs calling for a ban on political donations in cryptocurrency as concerns grow over foreign interference in British elections. Rushanara Ali, the Labour MP who helped draft the elections bill when she was a minister in the communities department, called for the government to strengthen the legis

‘He murdered his own people!’ Kuenssberg lashes out at Zack Polanski on BBC in Iran row

The hard-Left leader accused Donald Trump of murdering Ayatollah Ali Khamenei while at the "negotiating table".

Fears Iran could launch attack in UK - threat level urgently put under review

Iranian retaliation strikes landed within "a few hundred yards" of British troops in Bahrain

Newslinks for Sunday 1st March 2026

Iranian regime confirms Khamenei’s death | Starmer calls for diplomatic solution | Simons resigns as Cabinet Office Minister | Farage calls for an end to non-British citizens voting in UK elections The post Newslinks for Sunday 1st March 2026 appeared first on Conservative Home.

Iranian interventions are a tricky balance of the price, the prize, and the problem with the Prince of Persia

President Trump is not getting universal support for this action in America, but there will be voices inside the very system fighting to survive in Iran, telling its Western opponents, ‘if you want change, act now.’ The post Iranian interventions are a tricky balance of the price, the prize, and the problem with the Prince of Persia appeared first on Conservative Home.

Shabana Mahmood’s double down on immigration ‘disappointing’, says Alf Dubs

Labour peer, who was a child refugee, criticises home secretary’s response to Gorton and Denton byelection defeat The home secretary’s decision to double down on hardline immigration reforms in light of Labour’s byelection defeat to the Green party is “disappointing”, according to the Labour peer Alf Dubs. Lord Dubs, a child refugee who fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on the Kindertransport in 1939, had previously accused Shabana Mahmood of “pulling up the drawbridge” on child migrants. Conti

Nigel Farage pledges postal voting ban and end to Commonwealth voting rights

The Reform UK leader claims postal voting has turned elections into a 'laughing stock'